Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is essentially a material and energy balance over a system with some of the inputs and outputs used to assess the environmental impact of the system. Municipal waste life cycle assessment Part 1, and aluminium case study(1), by the same authors, described a method for Life Cycle Assessment of the base materials, for example aluminium or glass, in municipal waste. The aim of the method is to provide quantitative guidance, based upon environmental impact, for choosing the ＇best＇ waste management option for a material and, in particular, to show whether it should be recycled. The focus on base materials differentiates the method from the usual LCA of a single product or group of products, which are formed from base material(s). The method quantifies environmental impacts from all stages in the life of materials, from production from raw materials to final disposal and includes impacts apportioned from supporting activity, such as electricity generation. This paper extends the method to include the environmental impact due to collecting material for recycling. The model estimates the distances travelled by consumers bringing ＇recyclables＇ to collection sites and by vehicles collecting recycled material from these sites for delivery to transfer stations (local transport). Long distance haulage from the transfer stations to the material production plant is also included in the model. The method is applied to glass and it is found that the specific fuel usage per kg recycled material for consumer transport decreases with increasing material recovery rate. Specific fuel usage is almost constant for local transport over the range of practical recovery rates (10-85%) but at very low or high recovery rates it rises dramatically. Even at low recycling site densities and hence recovery rates, the fuel consumption due to recycling is not as high as other estimates. Recycling glass produces a reduction of 30+% in environmental loads, that is the totals of the impacts with a common effect. However, the extra loads due to collection reduce these savings by 3-5%. The savings against incineration are always greater than against landfill, because glass is non-combustible. The energy saved by recycling glass reaches a maximum of 4 MJ per kg of produced glass at a recovery rate of 83%. However, a practical rate might be between 65 and 72%, corresponding to site densities of 10-15 per 10,000 people, yielding savings of 3.3-3.7 MJ per kg produced glass.